More leaks; Nintendo Switch to use costum Tegra X2, 1.5Tflops, architecture unveiled

[FunFan]

SvennoJ said:

FunFan said:

Nah. You are not completely incorrect. Cartridges could make a difference in certain instances. Those instances are mostly anything that requires using RAM as "cache" to compensate for the slower speeds of BDs/HDDs, like streaming game data. Cartridges would not fix the need to use some ram for that but they can help alleviate the problem.

You wouldn't need to install certain parts of Xenoblade chronicles X to the internal SD memory like on the WiiU. Yet even games downloaded on the WiiU's internal memory take their sweet time to load.

Perhaps certain games could still require installs as reading from 2 locations is faster than just the 1. It also depends what background tasks the system does. For example on XBox One installing the game on an external HDD can sometimes have better results as the OS (background downloads etc) and the game aren't competing for the same resource. Getting the game data from a cartridge never has that problem.

It all depends on what type of SD cards the Switch is going to use. Cheap ones are only 30 MB/s transfer speed, while 5400 rpm drives sit at 100 MB/s.

Yet, there are M.2 and PCI express drives running at 2.5 GBs reads. Is up to Nintendo to choose the right tech. But Nintendo does like old and proven...